a journey begins...
"the well of lost plots. to understand the well you have to have an idea of the layout of the great library. the library is where all published fiction is stored so it can be read by the readers in the outland; there are twenty-six floors, one for each letter of the alphabet. the library is constructed in the layout of a cross with the four corridors radiating from the central point. on all the walls, end after end, shelf after shelf, are books. hundreds, thousands, millions of books. hardbacks, paperbacks, leatherbound, everything. but the similarity of these books to the copies we read back home is no more than the similarity a photograph has to its subject; these books are alive.
"beneath the great libary are twenty-six floors of dingy yet industrious subbasements known as the well of lost plots. this is where books are constructed, honed and polished in readiness for a place in the library above - if they make it that far. the failure rate is high. unpublished books outnumber published by an estimated eight to one."
-thursday next, the jurisfiction chronicles
~ so begins jasper fforde's novel, the well of lost plots, the book that will accompany me tomorrow on a journey into the forest, and to the river. thursday next is a great companion for these journeys...
see you soon!!
may all travelers find joy!!
jeanne
assembled and altered image, may 15, 2008
(a digital photo taken outside the library where the well of lost plots was waiting for me today... and a golden tray for serving tea)
a journey begins...
"the well of lost plots. to understand the well you have to have an idea of the layout of the great library. the library is where all published fiction is stored so it can be read by the readers in the outland; there are twenty-six floors, one for each letter of the alphabet. the library is constructed in the layout of a cross with the four corridors radiating from the central point. on all the walls, end after end, shelf after shelf, are books. hundreds, thousands, millions of books. hardbacks, paperbacks, leatherbound, everything. but the similarity of these books to the copies we read back home is no more than the similarity a photograph has to its subject; these books are alive.
"beneath the great libary are twenty-six floors of dingy yet industrious subbasements known as the well of lost plots. this is where books are constructed, honed and polished in readiness for a place in the library above - if they make it that far. the failure rate is high. unpublished books outnumber published by an estimated eight to one."
-thursday next, the jurisfiction chronicles
~ so begins jasper fforde's novel, the well of lost plots, the book that will accompany me tomorrow on a journey into the forest, and to the river. thursday next is a great companion for these journeys...
see you soon!!
may all travelers find joy!!
jeanne
assembled and altered image, may 15, 2008
(a digital photo taken outside the library where the well of lost plots was waiting for me today... and a golden tray for serving tea)